Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-06-20
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Six cases of smallpox have been dlscoV-
cred in San Francisco.
Frank Mingrel was stabbed and killed
by Henry DilletOCh in quarrel in CHI
cagO saloon.
The execution of the Sunday no-liquor
law in st. Louis is delayed by doubt as
to when it should go into effect.
Au order in the Canadian Council has
been passed removing the tolls on grain
passing through the Welland Canal.
SaloonkeeperS arrested at Alliance, o.,
for violating the prOlibitOry ordinance,
were tiaed seventy-fiye dollars aud cost.
George Dentschell, farmer living near
North Amherst, o., committed suicide
rather than appear in court to answer
charge of slander.
Frank Purcell, of East Albany, n. y,
aged twenty-five, was run over and killed
on the New York Central Railroad, IN
Amsterdam, n. \.
The Chicago police yesterday raided the
big wheat gambling establishment OF the
Commercial Grain and Stock Exchange,
and cOnfscated the apparatus.
Miss Anna Dickinson has been in pre-
carious condition at Scranton, Pa, and
narrowly escaped death. She is now thought
to have a fair chance for recovery.
Mrs. Mary B. Woodwork, trance reviy-
alist, has begun series of meetings near
Anderson, Ind. No less than two thou
sand persons attended the first meeting.
Two miles from Lynchburg Virginia,
George WINNER met Charles Shelly on
the public road and shot him through the
head without prOvocatiOn. Both men
were white.
Ignace Merry, who attempted suicide
at Wabash, Ind, by shooting himself in
the head, was saved by the thickness OF
his skull. the bullet tlattening out against
the frontal bone.
A train on the New York and New
England Railroad killed Joseph Smalley
and wife at Stormville, Conn. A few
minutes before the accident the two were
seen drinking from a bottle of whisky.
Albert TabOro (colored), accused of the
attempted outrage of the wife Of DR..
Booth, at Oxford, n. c., was hanged Sat
urday in the presence of five thousand
people, protesting his innocence to the
| last.
The Knights of Labor of Cincinnati have
undertaken to dictate to President Kerper
OF the Walnut Hills Cable Line, the rein
statement of certain discharged men. His
refusal will probably precipitate strike
The Philadelphia Common Pleas Court
has granted new trial to defendants ir
the suit Of Charles l.. Webster & Co, oi
New York, against Hubbard Brothers, o
that city, in connection with the sale o
Grant IS book.
J. L. Kemper is under arrest at Lima, o
| for cutting the pipe of the Excelsior Pipt
Line Company which was put down over
his own farm against his will, he having
granted the right of way to the STANDARD
Oil Company.
"Jem" Carney (English) and Jimmy
Mitchell (American) fought in New YOrl
for the light weight championship of tn,
world. Carney won in the eleventh round
The fight is spoken of as one Of the bes
and hardest ever fought in this country.
At the conference of the Union LabO
party of Cincinnati, called for the purpos'
of completing permanent organization,
minority report, advocating the Georg'
land doctrines, was asoverwhelmingly thrown
out Theconference was attended by nearl!
500 delegates.
The Canadian Cabinet agreed to ask al
appropriation of $500, 600 to assist tn
40, 600 French Canadians now resident II
the United States in returning to Canada
This is said to be q concession to the de
sire of the French population TO maintaiI
their own with the English-speaking pop
ulatiOn.
The so-calIed Perfectionists, fanatica
sect mostly within the Walnut Hill
Methodist Church, have all been expelle'
upon charges. One woman in the sect wa
worshiped as God, her sister as Christ an
they taught that the Church as at presen
constituted is the Babylon of the Bible, tha
Jesus was the son of Joseph, &c.